Charlatan

Jan Mikolášek (Ivan Trojan) is a Czech herbalist who reads illness in a glass of a patient's urine, and people line up at his door for the remedies that follow. Agnieszka Holland follows him from before the war through the Nazi occupation and into communist rule, each regime glad to use him and willing to shield him. His assistant František Palko (Juraj Loj) stays close, and Mikolášek's standing depends on keeping every new authority satisfied.